Feed-regulator.



'w. HEYSER. FEED REGULATOR.

APPLICATION FILED D110. 11, 1909.

Patented M1329, 1910;

WILLIAM HEYSER, 0F BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

FEED-REGULATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 9, 1910.

Application filed December 11, 1909. Serial No. 532,569.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Hnxsnn, of the city of Baltimore and Stateof Maryland, have invented certain Improvements in Feed-Regulators, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention is for the purpose of eifecting the rapid and regularfeeding of crushed ice into receptacles, and particularly the spacesbetween vessels containing perishable articles such for instance asoysters and fish, and the outer packing cases, as will hereinafter fullyappear.

In the further description of the said invention which follows,reference is made to the accompanying drawing forming a part hereof andin which,--

Figure 1 is a partly sectional side elevation of the improved apparatus,and Fig. 2 a partly sectional front view of the same.

Referring now to the drawing, 1 is the lower floor of a building uponwhich the packing of the ice receptacles takes place, and 2 an upperfloor upon which crushed ice in bulk is dumped in order that it can beshoveled into a bin the construction of which will now be described. Thesaid bin consists of a box of preferably rectangular crosssection and ofdownwardly tapered form in order that the crushed ice will be guided tothe discharge opening a at the bottom of the box. The bin 4 is pendentfrom the upper floor 2 and secured in any suitable manner to the joists3 thereof.

The crushed ice is introduced into the bin through a hatch b which isshown as uncovered in Fig. 2, and is discharged by withdrawing a gate 5from over the opening a before referred to, by means of the hand lever 7which is pivoted at c to a bracket 9 extending from the side of the bin,and connected by the links d, e and f to the said gate.

Crushed ice when tightly packed in a receptacle such as the bin abovedescribed, does not readily falltherein by gravity, and in opening thegate a discharge may or may not take place, and should it take placethere is no certainty that it will be uniform or constant while the gateis open. It is there fore necessary that the contained ice should bevertically shaken, and according to the present invention the shaking ofthe ice takes place simultaneously with the opening and closing of thedischarge gate.

12 and 13 are bars the lower ends of which are brought together andpivoted to the arm of the hand lever 7 which is curved and extendsthrough a slot 9 in the wall of the box to a point about the center ofthe discharge opening a.

The bar 12 which is nearly vertical and directly over the dischargeopening a, is provided with radially extending and downwardly inclinedbranches h, and when it is moved up or down, in the closing and openingof the gate, has the eifect of raking down the crushed ice andfacilitating its intermittent delivery to a vessel underneath the bin.The other bar 13 is provided with rakers which penetrate the mass ofcrushed. ice where not fully acted upon by the bar 12 and its branches,and as it has a motion in common with the bar 12, the entire body of iceis stirred by the movement of the hand lever. Both of the bars 12 and 13are suitably guided at their upper ends by means of slotted plates isthrough which they pass.

15 is a delivery spout to conduct the discharged ice to the receptacle Xbeneath and which is shown as standing on a bench 17 A receptacle beingin a proper position on the bench and ready to receive a charge ofcrushed ice, the attendant rapidly vibrates the hand lever whichalternately opens and closes the discharge gate, and at the same time soagitates the body of ice in the box that it is discharged freely eachtime the gate is opened.

I claim as my invention In a feed regulator, a bin having a dischargeopening, a hand lever pivoted to the bin with one of its ends extendinginto the same, a system of bars which are pivoted to the inner end ofthe hand lever and extend upwardly within the bin, and raking devicescarried by the said bars, combined with a gate to open and close thedischarge opening in the bin, and suitable links which unite the handlever with the gate, the whole being arranged so that in the opening andclosing of the gate through the medium.

of the hand lever and its connecting links, the said bars carrying theraking devices are given an up-and-down movement, substantially as, andfor the purpose specified.

WILLIAM HEYSER.

Witnesses:

THOMAS G. HULL, WM. T. HOWARD.

